SpaceX’s Bandwagon-5 and Its Starfall Reentry Capsule Slip to Tuesday
SpaceX scrubbed Monday’s Bandwagon-5 rideshare because of poor weather in the booster recovery zone. The new target is Tuesday, Oct 20, with an hour-long window opening…
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WPSplinter: A 16-Year-Old Broadcom Wi-Fi Bug Lets Strangers Hijack Routers
Researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed WPSplinter, two bugs in Broadcom’s proprietary Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) code dating back to at least 2010. Someone in Wi-Fi range can…
SpacemiT V100: A 46-Core Server-Class RISC-V Chip
SpacemiT announced the V100, which it calls the first chip fully compliant with the RISC-V server specification. 46 cores in a hybrid design: 6 XiangShan Kunminghu…
What’s New in ChatGPT: Slides, GPT-6 Pro Parallel Agents and New Live Voices
OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT release notes bring three updates worth knowing about. ChatGPT Slides Create decks in Space from a conversation, files or an outline, or share…
Open-Weight Models Now Handle 71.5% of Vercel’s AI Gateway Tokens
Vercel’s AI Gateway numbers show open-weight models are winning on usage and catching up on spending. Open-weight models processed 71.5% of gateway tokens, and the majority…
Linux 7.4 Adds TAINT_FORCED_BIND After AI Fuzz Bots Flood Reports
Linux 7.4’s driver core pull adds a new kernel taint, TAINT_FORCED_BIND, and the reason is very 2026. What happened The sysfs bind/unbind interface lets you attach…
Leap Seconds Are Dead, Before They Became the Next Y2K
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) voted at its 28th meeting to stop adding leap seconds. Why Leap seconds keep UTC in step with…
BeamFS: A Linux File System That Fixes Corrupted Bytes in Place
A new RFC patch series proposes BeamFS, a Reed-Solomon protected file system for Linux, built for single-disk systems in radiation-prone places like satellites and radiotherapy rooms.…
Update: ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management
Update to my earlier post, ConnectWise Cloud Backup Breach Hits Microsoft 365 Tenants. The outage got bigger. What’s new Because SaaS Security and Cloud Management are…
Update: Gurman Now Expects OLED MacBook Pro on November 6, and Four Straight Friday Launches
Update to my earlier post, Rumor: Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Eyed for November 6. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now says the November 6 date is for releases,…